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Blood Type in Pop Culture
South Korea doesn't just believe in blood type — there's a Netflix genre built around it. A Korean dating app might ask your blood type before your name. Type B people are statistically the most likely to be cast as the villain in K-dramas.
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South Korea shares Japan's blood type personality culture — but with a twist. While Japan's blood type obsession is long-established, Korea experienced a wave of "blood type boom" content in the 2000s driven by Japanese pop culture imports. Type B is stereotyped as selfish and uncommitted in Korean media, to the point that saying someone is "Type B" has become an insult. The science hasn't changed; the stigma has been localized.